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When Giants Ruled the Sky

When Giants Ruled the Sky


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How the American airship came within a hair's breadth of replacing planes, trains, and ocean liners as dominant long-distance transport

Nearly everything people think they know about airships is wrong. Few realize that prior to the Hindenburg disaster airships transported passengers without a single casualty for more than 20 years, a record unmatched by any other form of transportation. When Giants Ruled the Sky tells the true but little-known story of the USS Macon (ZRS-5), the world's largest, most expensive and most technologically advanced airship of her day, and the four men responsible for conceiving, designing, building, and flying her. In doing so it reveals how the airship came within a hair's breadth of replacing planes, trains, and ocean liners as the dominant form of long-distance transportation, and exactly what went wrong, a tale of physical courage, engineering acumen, ugly politicking and two egregious disasters.
About the Author: John J. Geoghegan began his career as a Special Correspondent for the New York Times. His first book, Operation Storm, tells the story of a squadron of Japanese underwater aircraft carriers purpose-built to launch an aerial raid against the US as a follow-up to Pearl Harbor. The Wall Street Journal called it 'a fascinating, meticulously researched, and deft account.' It has since been translated into Dutch and Japanese, published in paperback, and inspired a Channel Five documentary.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780750987837
  • Publisher: History Press
  • Publisher Imprint: History Press
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 464
  • Spine Width: 0 mm
  • Weight: 888 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0750987839
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2022
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The Brief Reign and Tragic Demise of the American Rigid Airship
  • Width: 156 mm


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